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‘Transformers: Age of Extinction’ Submitted for Oscar Consideration by Paramount
Winter is fully upon us, which means that the major film studios are currently putting the race for summer box office dollars on the back burner in favor of targeting prestige at the 2015 Oscars. For those who are unfamiliar with the awards process, there’s more to it than simply releasing a bunch of war movies, historical dramas and biopics during the winter season. Studios also have to choose a selection of their 2014 films to promote for awards consideration by the Academy and arrange screenings of those features.
20th Century’s Fox’s submissions include David Fincher’s missing person mystery Gone Girl, Ridley Scott’s biblical epic Exodus: Gods and Kings and bittersweet romance The Fault in Our Stars. Disney is submitting recent animated feature Big Hero 6 and upcoming musical adaptation Into the Woods. Meanwhile, Universal is presenting a pair of biopics – Get On Up (starring Chadwick Boseman as James Brown) and Unbroken (starring Jack O’Connell as Louis Zamperini).
Every year there are a choice few blockbuster movies included among the more highbrow fare, but one choice that’s bound to raise a few brows very high is Paramount Pictures‘ submission of Transformers: Age of Extinction for consideration by the Academy. Michael Bay’s latest entry in the long-running franchise about warring robots from space grossed over $1 billion worldwide, but critics looked on it rather less favorably than audiences.
It’s worth noting that Transformers: Age of Extinction isn’t the only highly commercial film being put forward for awards consideration. Fox is submitting both Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and X-Men: Days of Future Past, but both of those movies received high praise in reviews. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is probably one of this year’s strongest contenders for the Best Achievement in Visual Effects award, although nothing is guaranteed with Interstellar and Godzilla also in the mix.
The Academy’s rather snobbish tastes in cinema are widely known enough to have generated a genre all of their own (‘Oscar bait’) and have been both parodied and criticized heavily over the years. When summer blockbuster type movies are nominated they generally only win in technical categories rather than in heavy hitters like Best Picture and Best Director; and if a major blockbuster does win the big awards (as The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King did when it stormed into the 2004 Oscars and won eleven awards), it’s usually a film that has received high amounts of critical acclaim.
Unlike other popcorn movie submissions such as A Million Ways to Die in the West, which is only being submitted for consideration in the categories of Best Original Score and Best Original Song, Transformers: Age of Extinction is being submitted for all categories, including Best Picture. Perhaps after February next year we’ll be referring to Bay’s most recent directorial effort as “the Oscar-winning Transformers: Age of Extinction.”
‘Ready Player One’ Director Shortlist Includes Christopher Nolan,Peter Jackson, Edgar Wright & More
Christopher Nolan’s space adventure, Interstellar, is currently going strong at the global box office; and late last week, we learned that Warner Bros. has approached the filmmaker to direct another sci-fi project in Ready Player One, a film adaptation of the novel by Ernest Cline. The studio is setting its sights high with this one, as Nolan is now reported to be but one of several A-list helmsmen who’ve been eyed to call the shots on this feature.
The Ready Player One source material takes place in the year 2044, where the teen protagonist, Wade Watts, escapes the ugliness of his everyday reality by playing a virtual reality game known as OASIS; a virtual world where puzzles are based on pop culture of decades past, and whoever unlocks them will accumulate great wealth and fortune… assuming they aren’t killed in the process, that is.
Ready Player One blends several en vogue story elements – a dystopic future and nostalgia for pop culture past among them – and it’s easy to see how its Tron-esque virtual reality setting could make for something interesting, placed in the hands of the director of Interstellar and Inception. However, according to AICN, the project’s current director shortlist (as in, those who’ve been approached to direct) also includes Peter Jackson, Edgar Wright, Matthew Vaughn, and WB’s supposed “dream pick,” Robert Zemeckis.
Zemeckis’ work is heavily referenced in Cline’s source novel, which is no surprise given his work in decades past; and thus, he’s seen as all the more ideal a pick for a film that would combine geeky genre entertainment with social commentary (like many of Zemeckis’ most famous movies). The filmmaker has settled into telling more grounded stories of late, with Flight and the upcoming The Walk; that doesn’t mean he won’t be intrigued by Ready Player One‘s reality-defying thrills, assuming he likes the script penned by Zak Penn (The Incredible Hulk).
As for the other mentioned names: Jackson’s schedule is pretty open, following this month’s release of his final Middle-earth film, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies; Vaughn has his new Mark Millar comic book movie, Kingsman: The Secret Service, arriving next year, but hasn’t committed to his next directorial effort yet; and Wright has a few scripts of his own making in the works, but is currently being eyed to direct Star Trek 3 (though that doesn’t at all guarantee he’ll accept the job).
Cline’s book is much more light-hearted and full of whiz-bang fun than your average dystopian sci-fi adventure; hence, it could be a perfect match for the sensibilities of such folk as Wright and Vaughn, whose best work blends action and comedy together seamlessly. Similarly, as we’ve mentioned before, it would be refreshing to see Nolan tackle something a bit on the more comical side; alternatively, Ready Player One could fully bring out Jackson’s old zaniness, from his pre-Lord of the Rings career.
Ready Player One would suddenly become one of many film buffs’ must-see upcoming titles, should it land a director of the pedigree currently in consideration. It’s not yet apparent which – if any – of the filmmakers listed here are interested in the material, but we’ll keep you updated on the project’s development; in the meantime, feel free and let us know who you would like to see bring this sci-fi adventure to the big screen.
Ready Player One does not currently have a release date.
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